''The Decoy'' or ''A Mirror for Skylarks'' (French: ''Le miroir aux alouettes'') is a 1935 adventure film directed by Roger Le Bon and

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and starring

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and

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.Rentschler p.289 It was the French-language remake of the 1934 film ''

Decoy A decoy (derived from the Dutch ''de'' ''kooi'', literally "the cage" or possibly ''ende kooi'', " duck cage") is usually a person, device, or event which resembles what an individual or a group might be looking for, but it is only meant to lu ...

''. The film was produced by the German company

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in partnership with its French subsidiary ACE. The French title is a reference to a classic device used as a decoy.

Cast

as Délia *

as Jean Forestier *

as Jenny * Lucien Dayle as H. Forestier * Pierre Labry as Le commandant *

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as Le premier officier *

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as Le deuxième officier *

Jeanne Fusier-Gir Jeanne Fusier-Gir (1885–1973) was a French stage and film actress. She was married to the painter Charles Gir, and was the mother of the film director François Gir.Rège p. 442 Selected filmography * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (192 ...

as La passagère * Henri Mairet as Le passager * Raymond Aimos as Dimitri * Max Maxudian as Le Persan * Germaine Godefroid *

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as L'armateur Dekalf * Edouard Hamel * Henri Bosc as Makarian * Henry Bonvallet

References

Bibliography

* Rentschler, Eric. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links

* 1935 films German adventure films 1935 adventure films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Hans Steinhoff Films directed by Roger Le Bon UFA GmbH films German multilingual films Seafaring films German black-and-white films 1935 multilingual films 1935 comedy films 1930s German films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub